Patchwork
“summarized in the coroner’s report[1]”
“one who can’t throw away a piece of wilted lettuce[2]”
“you infinitely portable god – a quiet god[3]”
“We were long over as a romantic couple.[4]”

“Even a worm is beautiful[5]”
“the necessity of killing and its regulation[6]”
“lullabyes from welfare, food-stamps, and nature[7]”
“No need to pay your taxes[8]”
“in formal rapture and cast hollow spirit[9]”
“splashed all over me.[10]”

“i stole
those images from a
wild girl’s mouth.[11]”
“I dont want to hurt her
–Of all people to hurt.[12]”
“Let the combination of morality
and inhumanity
begin.[13]”

“MAN IS INNOCENT & BEAUTIFUL & born[14]”
“stained with urine and excrement.[15]”
“How could I hold back the tears?[16]”
“it’s an awful job. But she never told me[17]”
“The face that moves in my mirror is huge and pockmarked,[18]”
“But One Night In The Tropics, I Saw What You Did.[19]”

“WAITING FOR THAT SIGH[30]”
“but it’s unrequited love.[31]”
“Like the ghost of a lover done wrong.[32]”
“Looking like poetry
or the secret of clay.[33]”
“For a few of the women who’d slept with him[34]”
“Long after the theatre lights went on[35]”
“as if I were as pure[36]”
“as death due to heart attack[37]”
“and a stainless-steel cross[38]”
“crushed on the floors of time,[39]”
“with the unfairness of weight.[40]”